Deroy Murdock writes:
Hillary Clinton’s launch of her presidential bid exhibits neither the oratorical triumph of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s Liberty College début nor the low-key toughness of Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul’s opening rally in Louisville.
Instead, she has taken to social media to air a video (above) in which she looks into the camera and says (1:35) ‘I’m running for president.’ And then, at the end: ‘It’s your time, and I hope you’ll join me on this journey.’
This gap between the big-stage premiers of her two first rivals and her own small-screen YouTube announcement reflects her campaign’s chief problem: the gulf between Hillary’s vaunted record of accomplishment — and what she has actually delivered.
While her fans boast of her ‘decades of experience,’ Clinton has little to nothing to show for her years in public life.
Her four years as secretary of state are defined by the words ‘e-mail server,’ ‘Russian reset,’ and ‘Benghazi.’ Her eight years in the Senate included no memorable legislative accomplishments.
As First Lady, she engineered HillaryCare — a health reform so hated that a Democrat Congress never even scheduled it for a vote.
The White House feared that the gargantuan proposal would be rejected by the Clintons’ own party on Capitol Hill.
Also, while simultaneously the First Lady of Arkansas and a partner at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm, Clinton waded through Whitewater, Castle Grande, cattle futures contracts, and other dodgy get-rich-quick schemes.
And yet she wants us to believe that she is a natural for the role of leader of the free world.
The one word that should greet Clinton’s announcement is ‘why?’
Economic policies bought and paid for on Wall Street. Foreign policies bought and paid for in the Gulf, that well-known heartland of feminism. Social policies inhaled at Woodstock, and which would not have precluded the Republican nomination.
And a racist rabble-rouser in 2008, her husband having previously told Ted Kennedy of the then Senator Obama, "That boy ought to be getting us coffee." There is an undeniable misogyny in the insistence that she is the ghastlier Clinton. They are both vile.
Come on, the Civil Rights industrial complex. Get behind someone else. Come on, someone else. Give the Civil Rights industrial complex a reason to get behind you.
Hillary Clinton’s launch of her presidential bid exhibits neither the oratorical triumph of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s Liberty College début nor the low-key toughness of Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul’s opening rally in Louisville.
Instead, she has taken to social media to air a video (above) in which she looks into the camera and says (1:35) ‘I’m running for president.’ And then, at the end: ‘It’s your time, and I hope you’ll join me on this journey.’
This gap between the big-stage premiers of her two first rivals and her own small-screen YouTube announcement reflects her campaign’s chief problem: the gulf between Hillary’s vaunted record of accomplishment — and what she has actually delivered.
While her fans boast of her ‘decades of experience,’ Clinton has little to nothing to show for her years in public life.
Her four years as secretary of state are defined by the words ‘e-mail server,’ ‘Russian reset,’ and ‘Benghazi.’ Her eight years in the Senate included no memorable legislative accomplishments.
As First Lady, she engineered HillaryCare — a health reform so hated that a Democrat Congress never even scheduled it for a vote.
The White House feared that the gargantuan proposal would be rejected by the Clintons’ own party on Capitol Hill.
Also, while simultaneously the First Lady of Arkansas and a partner at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm, Clinton waded through Whitewater, Castle Grande, cattle futures contracts, and other dodgy get-rich-quick schemes.
And yet she wants us to believe that she is a natural for the role of leader of the free world.
The one word that should greet Clinton’s announcement is ‘why?’
Economic policies bought and paid for on Wall Street. Foreign policies bought and paid for in the Gulf, that well-known heartland of feminism. Social policies inhaled at Woodstock, and which would not have precluded the Republican nomination.
And a racist rabble-rouser in 2008, her husband having previously told Ted Kennedy of the then Senator Obama, "That boy ought to be getting us coffee." There is an undeniable misogyny in the insistence that she is the ghastlier Clinton. They are both vile.
Come on, the Civil Rights industrial complex. Get behind someone else. Come on, someone else. Give the Civil Rights industrial complex a reason to get behind you.
Her video was a window into the future of US politics. Like Obama's 2012 campaign videos promising contraception to single women, Clinton's video featured same-sex couples, singles and a Hispanic businessman talking in Spanish. The Democrats no longer even need to acknowledge conservative exist-they're just talking to their people now.
ReplyDeleteThey've seen the demographic trends.
When Mitt Romney ran for President on a pledge to abolish federal funding for Planned Parenthood (i.e for abortion) and abolish mandatory contraceptive coverage in Obamacare-Obama accused him of being "anti contraception" and "anti women".
Lies and smears stick. It's the new politics.
Lies and smears are nothing "new", dear boy.
DeleteOh, do give it a rest. Especially since this is all 20 years out of date, as even its originators now acknowledge.
I can picture you, and it's not pretty. I was at Durham. But, like having been at Durham, it's not incurable.
You are still very much at Durham. Can't imagine the place without you.
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